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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hafton Arlwashton and Distribution Encourage Development of Speed Plan HBPA Home Benefit Shows Free for All Wests Lochinvar Notes on an Old "Tote? Ticket The total purse distribution in the U. S. has progressed from 5,911,167 to 8,555,680 in the hectic course of the past four years. The total for the combined Arlington-Washington meets from 04,355 to ,518,900. This seems to us a liberal proportion of the increased disbursement to horsemen. The 0,-000 increase in seven Arlington - Washington stakes this summer brings the total for 70 days to ,740,000. ... What with the resumption of Hialeah, Tropical and Delaware, a -100-day season in Maryland and sharply increased distribution at virtually all meets, the over-all total this year will more approximate the cost of maintaining the nations racing stables, estimated at some 0,000,000. . . . We mention this deficit before somebody impulsively questions the rectitude of clubs in the high tax brackets investing in their own business. Operating a stable is a business and President Roosevelt has said business should be permitted a 5 per cent prof it during the war. . . . Noting that he plans starting Durazna in Wednesdays Princess Doreen at Homewood, John Goode mused: "I suppose she may meet Twilight Tear," continuing, "I shall be surprised if Twilight Tear breezes to her as she did eastern fillies." . . . Over a protest from Mr. Goode, whose sense of loyalty to "Doggie" is offended by disadvantageous comparisons, John chuckled: "I must think Durazna a better mare than was Miss Dogwood. For one thing, there is more of her." Myrtlewood now has a yearling and suckling, both fillies, happily for Combs, by Sir Gallahad in. . . . "There should be a place in racing for good sprinters, too," Ben Lindheimer said, increasing the mile Dick Welles to 5,000 and the six-furlong Chicago Handicap to 0,000. Executive heads of major tracks will be asked to serve on a board of governors to sit in with HBPA officials in administrative matters pertaining to the proposed "Old Ky. Home" of the organization, and U definitely will be in the Blue Grass. Necessary funds are to be raised through various channels, such as benefit shows Al Jolson may conduct the first at Gotham this fall and tracks proceeds from occasional races. Free for Alls showy form elicited an explosion of superlatives here in the Midlands and reminds racegoers that the first of Americas series of lavish Futurities is but three weeks away. This is the Arlington Park Jockey Clubs version, which has an estimated gross of 0,000 and is scheduled for July 15. To be perfectly calm and dispassionate about it, Free for All patently outclasses other kindergarteners matriculating here in the Mid-West, and he is eligible for both the Arlington and Washington Park Futurities. It is futile to speculate on how he might fare against eastern candidates such as Flood Town, Burg-el-Arab, Jeep, Maransart and Fighting Don, though there seems to be a healthy lot of curiosity about it. No less a connoisseur than is Abou Ben Jones fancies Free for All as the best colt that has come under his notice this season. And his developer, Burley Parke, can discern no difference in the capacities of Free for All and Occupation to a corresponding juncture in their careers. An encounter between this latest legend of the Marsch barn and Colonel Whitneys Burg-el-Arab would be of widespread and absorbing interest. "The Burglar" is a larger colt than is Free for All, if that signifies anything. The Hyde Park record-breaker is no model for weather-vanes on looks, which is explicable, as he is by Questionnaire from a Chicle mare. But he is smart and is endowed with a high turn of speed. Free for All is by no means the first of John Marschs sequence of championship performers and is perhaps not the last. There now is a suckling brother to Occupation and Occupy. And Blue Delight is reported in foal to Whirlaway. The HBPAs activities, mentioned in $ i preceding paragraph, include the advocacy i of a rule against the piracy of grooms and exercise boys, for whose services there L such rampant by-bidding among racing establishments. This practice of horsemen virtually Shanghaiing one anothers help is an outgrowth of the acute labor shortage created by selective service. The HBPA" would have officials enforce a rule pro? hibiting the employment of grooms and exercise boys who have not a signed rr lease from their previous employer, as In the instance of contract jockeys.
